[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 73151] Gallery and Styles&Formatting should open in the Sidebar

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73151

--- Comment #29 from V Stuart Foote <vstuart.foote@utsa.edu> ---
(In reply to comment #28)
> Wrt. the icon strip down the side of the side-bar, that is just a
> waste of space AFAICS - having that either in a nearby toolbar [hard], or in
> a horizontal 'tab bar' style toolbar at the top of the side-bar would make
> much more sense (to me).

Only problem there, is that while the Tab Bar UI could be rotated horizontally,
and its width dynamic (taken from width sizing of the TitleBar and Deck) it
would need horizontal slider to expose the Tab icons for all decks--would get
kind of ugly. Oriented vertically, it is fixed but not too obtrusive.

> There are a number of functions already available in that code
> (interestingly) and not enabled that may be worth playing with.

Yup, when Andre Fisher did the port for AOO of the Symphony contribution he
didn't get too far removed from the original functions--but provided a lot of
framework for later enhancement.

> Personally - I'm also rather of the view that the ability to un-dock
> side-bar panels would be rather useful =) hopefully that would provide a
> single place to find this stuff for most users, and not hinder power users

Currently the whole Side Bar can be un-docked but that UI frame can not be
duplicated--the decks are only linked to the one frame. It would be much more
functional if all of the decks could be un-docked, each into their own frame.
Support for multiheaded systems would be much improved. And power users would
be happy to have option of continuing to work as in the past with Navigator,
and Gallery floating.

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